Editing David Vitter (section)

===2010 election===
{{main|2010 United States Senate election in Louisiana}}
[[File:David Vitter yard sign IMG 0018.JPG|175px|right|thumb|Vitter yard sign (2010)]]
Vitter began fundraising for his 2010 reelection run in December 2008.<ref>{{cite news|date= December 5, 2008|url= http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9460332|title= Scandal-plagued Vitter gets La. fundraising help|agency= Associated Press|access-date= December 5, 2008}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He raised $731,000 in the first quarter of 2009 and $2.5 million for his 2010 campaign.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1240378230147980.xml&coll=1 |title=Vitter's re-election campaign stash swelling for 2010 |newspaper=NOLA.com |date=April 22, 2009 |access-date=August 29, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He had wide leads against potential Democratic opponents in aggregate general election polling.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/louisiana/election_2010_louisiana_senate |title=Election 2010: Louisiana Senate – Rasmussen Reports |publisher=Rasmussenreports.com |access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref> He faced intraparty opposition from [[Chet D. Traylor]] of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], a former associate justice of the [[Louisiana Supreme Court]], in the August 28 Republican [[Partisan primary|primary election]] and defeated him.

He faced the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[U.S. Representative]] [[Charlie Melançon]] of [[Napoleonville, Louisiana|Napoleonville]] in the November 2 general election. [[Louisiana State Legislature|State Representative]] [[Ernest Wooton]] of [[Belle Chasse, Louisiana|Belle Chasse]] in [[Plaquemines Parish]], an [[Independent (politics)|Independent]], also ran.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100710/NEWS01/7100335/Monroe-s-Traylor-to-challenge-Vitter |title=Monroe's Traylor to challenge Vitter |publisher=[[Monroe News Star]], July 10, 2010 |access-date=July 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715192926/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100710/NEWS01/7100335/Monroe-s-Traylor-to-challenge-Vitter |archive-date=July 15, 2010 }}</ref> On November 4, 2010, Vitter was re-elected as Louisiana Senator, defeating his Democratic rival, Melancon. Vitter got 715,304 votes while Melancon got 476,423 votes. Vitter received about 57% of the total vote while Melancon got 38%. The Independent candidate Wooton finished with 8,167 votes, or 1 percent of the total cast.